On Aug. 28, 1993, NASA’s Galileo spacecraft flew by the asteroid Ida on its way to Jupiter. Here’s why it mattered.
NASA’s Curiosity Mars rover captured a gorgeous new panorama to celebrate climbing a total of 1 kilometer (0.6 miles) throughout its now 14-year exploration of the Red Planet.
The astronauts of NASA’s Artemis II mission, who flew around the moon this past April, just received the United States’ highest space honor.
NASA astronaut Jonny Kim is leaving the space agency to continue his military career. Kim, who’s also a medical doctor, completed one spaceflight during his NASA career.
A private spacecraft failed to rescue NASA’s Swift space telescope, meaning the big observatory will come crashing back to Earth in the near future. But details are sparse at the moment.
SpaceX has loaded Flight 13’s Starship upper stage onto a ship in the Indian Ocean, more than a month after the vehicle splashed down. It is now headed home to Texas.
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is about to launch, but the observatory almost had a very different fate. President Trump’s leaked budget proposal last year marked it for cancellation.
On Aug. 27, 1962, NASA launched Mariner 2, the world’s first spacecraft to successfully visit another planet: Venus.
Europe’s Ariane 6 rocket launched the sharp-eyed MTG-I2 weather satellite to orbit today (Aug. 27).
Sun-reflecting space mirrors proposed by U.S. startup Reflect Orbital will have an even more devastating effect on the night sky around the world than previously thought, a study has found.